4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 68227c03cba84a24faf8a7277d2b1a03c8959c2c upstream. Before the patch, the flock flag could remain uninitialized for the lifespan of the fuse_file allocation. Unless set to true in fuse_file_flock(), it would remain in an indeterminate state until read in an if statement in fuse_release_common(). This could consequently lead to taking an unexpected branch in the code. The bug was discovered by a runtime instrumentation designed to detect use of uninitialized memory in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 37fb3a30b462 ("fuse: fix flock") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ struct fuse_file *fuse_file_alloc(struct { struct fuse_file *ff; - ff = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fuse_file), GFP_KERNEL); + ff = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fuse_file), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!ff)) return NULL;